Toddler Train Bed

[blitz]

Kid #2 is due in a few weeks, so it was time to get my son out of his crib and into a bed.

Bought an HO scale model (thanks to Go4long for pointing me in the right direction), took some calipers to it and started planning.

End product is about 400 lbs, modular (comes apart with allen keys), and has working headlights. I have interior LED strip lighting ready to go in, but have to pick up some protective diffusers before installing it. It fits a twin mattress, so he can take it to college if he wants :rofl:

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Also made a flat car step stool for it out of the scrap materials.

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[DEATH2000]

That is insanely awesome!!!! Your kid must really love trains (or you do...).

Either way, thats impressive.

[lint]

Wow! Very nice!

[bourge73]

I love it! I work at CP and I want one for my 2 year old!

[Kloubek]

Ridiculously cool. Nice work!

[benyl]

Lucky kid. That is awesome.

Where do you find the time?

[ZeroGravity]

Wow... :eek:

normally i'm against themed beds (such as thomas the train, disney cars, etc...) but wow... this is an exception.

produce plans and sell?... or make ready to put together kits?!

[hurrdurr]

Wicked man. Lucky kid. Great Dad

[Seth1968]

Looks great!

Were you planning to round off the corner of the guard and pad it?

[DENZILDON]

Wow! :clap: My son will go crazy if he had that! Good job! :thumbsup:

[Wrinkly]

Wow! What a great job! :thumbsup:

[spikerS]

LOL, forget the kids, I would go nuts to have a bed like that!

[voodoo]

Originally posted by bourge73
I love it! I work at CP and I want one for my 2 year old!
Exactly this.

[blitz]

Originally posted by DEATH2000
That is insanely awesome!!!! Your kid must really love trains (or you do...).

Either way, thats impressive.

Haha, he's nuts about them. I'm pretty indifferent.



Originally posted by benyl
Lucky kid. That is awesome.

Where do you find the time?

Took a few full saturdays to do the big cuts in the garage, and then moved my stuff in the basement to be able to work after he went to bed.


Originally posted by ZeroGravity
Wow... :eek:

normally i'm against themed beds (such as thomas the train, disney cars, etc...) but wow... this is an exception.

produce plans and sell?... or make ready to put together kits?!

He really doesn't seem to care about Thomas, he seems to prefer real trains and, I figured this one would take longer to grow out of.

No way I'm rebuilding one of these, the angles on the nose were horrible to do. Lots complicated angles and getting things to line up properly was a real bitch. Next bed I make will have to be standard angles like 30/45/90°, not 17° with a 9° bevel.


Originally posted by Seth1968
Looks great!

Were you planning to round off the corner of the guard and pad it?

Nope. It's got a 1/8" round on it, that's safe enough :rofl:

[jwslam]

Originally posted by spikers
LOL, forget the kids, I would go nuts!
Riding that into town and back how many times a day?

[Modelexis]

Very cool, too bad more fathers aren't this involved in their kids lives.

[sxtasy]

Awesome work Blitz!

[firebane]

Lol I don't know what is more awesome the train or the pose the kid has with that hair..

Its like "Yeah mother choo choo fucker"

[AndyL]

:thumbsup: Damn that came out sweet!

[Unknown303]

Damn you! :whipped: So it's who can build the most elaborate kids bed hey. Kind of wish I had more spare time currently.

[sillysod]

love your posts in this sub blitz :)

[schurchill39]

The first picture looks like a computer generated image. If that would have been the only picture you posted I would have thought that you just flanged that up in a graphics design program. Well done sir.

[CapnCrunch]

Damn, can you make a king sized one?

Uhhhh, for a friend........of...........mine............?